I suppose this thread could have been put in "Rants", but what the heck...

In listening and watching and reading many of the US politicians, "news" outlets and sporting events, I've come up with a list of terms and words that should be banned from these sources. They are overused, misused, misinterpreted, largely subjective, and - to be frank - quite stupid. Here are mine (in no particular order); you can add more if you like...

1. The silly, ignorant, and fatuous "celebrations" in the end zone of US football when a person scores; and the silly, ignorant, and fatuous "celebrations" when any player in US football does their job (let us say, during a quarterback "sack", or a tackle, or almost anything). The player's minds and "worth" still remain in the "hood" playground seeing how tough they can be.

2. The nonsensical habit of world (and real) football players to either slide on their knees or rip their jersey off after scoring a goal.

Most - certainly not all - of the players of these two sports appear to be nothing short of narcissistic, self-agrandizing morons.

IMHO!

"People don't go to heaven when they die; they're taken to a special room and burned!"

1. The silly, ignorant, and fatuous "celebrations" in the end zone of US football when a person scores; and the silly, ignorant, and fatuous "celebrations" when any player in US football does their job (let us say, during a quarterback "sack", or a tackle, or almost anything). The player's minds and "worth" still remain in the "hood" playground seeing how tough they can be.

2. The nonsensical habit of world (and real) football players to either slide on their knees or rip their jersey off after scoring a goal.

Most - certainly not all - of the players of these two sports appear to be nothing short of narcissistic, self-agrandizing morons.

IMHO!

It sounds to me as though you never played in organized, competitive sport.

Just sayin'.

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Science is not a subject, but a method.

1. The silly, ignorant, and fatuous "celebrations" in the end zone of US football when a person scores; and the silly, ignorant, and fatuous "celebrations" when any player in US football does their job (let us say, during a quarterback "sack", or a tackle, or almost anything). The player's minds and "worth" still remain in the "hood" playground seeing how tough they can be.

2. The nonsensical habit of world (and real) football players to either slide on their knees or rip their jersey off after scoring a goal.

Most - certainly not all - of the players of these two sports appear to be nothing short of narcissistic, self-agrandizing morons.

IMHO!

It sounds to me as though you never played in organized, competitive sport.

Just sayin'.

Hubby was a football fan and one day he got me to watch a game with him. It was foreign to me, I grew up around soccer. Afterwards he asked what I thought of it. I said "I like it when they cuddle and stick their bums up in the air."

Science is the process we've designed to be responsible for generating our best guess as to what the fuck is going on. Girly Man

1. The silly, ignorant, and fatuous "celebrations" in the end zone of US football when a person scores; and the silly, ignorant, and fatuous "celebrations" when any player in US football does their job (let us say, during a quarterback "sack", or a tackle, or almost anything). The player's minds and "worth" still remain in the "hood" playground seeing how tough they can be.

2. The nonsensical habit of world (and real) football players to either slide on their knees or rip their jersey off after scoring a goal.

Most - certainly not all - of the players of these two sports appear to be nothing short of narcissistic, self-agrandizing morons.

IMHO!

It sounds to me as though you never played in organized, competitive sport.

Just sayin'.

You are entitled to your humble opinion also!

"People don't go to heaven when they die; they're taken to a special room and burned!"

I heard a word here on the forum for the first time from some theist while we were fighting about something. He was an old codger so I just figured it was an old word that had fallen into disuse. Then suddenly, I started hearing it amongst other people on YouTube... all theists!

My desktop dictionary didn't have it and even the spell check here tells me it's spelled incorrectly. I'm pretty well read and have a fairly diverse vocabulary so, thought it might be some arcane word that had been recently revived.... sure enough...

Then I really got to wondering... was this some word of the day on one of those word-a-day calendars and it just got out of hand? Or maybe christees are use to all reading the same book and then repeating things ... ?

Uh... I recently found that Seth used the word in his book, De-converted... don't suppose they read that book, do ya?

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels. ~ Albert Einstein